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Sveti Spas - selo Evla, Resen

Sveti Spas can be found in the village Evla, a few kilometres from the town Resen. To reach the church you have to drive or walk from the village, up on the hill to the mountain. The church is built into the mountain wall. The church itself is really old, people don't really know how old it is. There is a lot of caves around the church, some can only be explored if you crawl on your knees through the tunnels leading to them.

There are a lot of mysteries circulating about the church and place surrounding it. Every year at the holiday Sveti Spas (Ascension) at one place in the cave, there is water dripping (some say holy water). You can't see water there on any other day. A lot of people gather there at the holiday mainly people living in Prespa-region. They light a candle in the church and people from the village are serving graf (a Macedonian specialty).

One of the caves

Inside the church

The stairs leading up to the church.

There is also a path on the mountain wall, where you have to climb through a passage in the cave. People say that couples that don't have or can't have children, should go this path 3 times in a row. And the saying is that it has helped maybe 90 % of all the couples that have done this.

The church has been rest orated in 2010. There is also a park before you climb up all the stairs leading to the church, where you can have a picnic or a barbecue. The view is marvellous and it is a nice and quiet place with the mountains and forest surrounding you.